Assessments
The Etobicoke–Mississauga Branch of ORMTA welcomes members to register their students for our Fall and Spring Assessments. These Assessments provide valuable performance opportunities for students of all ages and RCM levels. Participants may perform piece(s) of their choice, provided that it meets the repertoire and performance guidelines. Written feedback will be given by the adjudicator and marks will be awarded for all categories except the Mature Classes. Students (not including the Mature Classes) who achieve a mark of 84% or higher on any piece at either the Fall or Spring Assessments, within the same academic year, are eligible to participate in the Branch Competition held in May.
Teachers, please complete the Registration Form on behalf of your students.
For further information about Assessment Fees (2026-2027), please click the link. Please note that fees for the Mature Classes category will be based on the grade levels listed under Solo Entrants in the document.
Please read through the Entry Guidelines.
Please read through the Rules and Regulations.
FALL:
Sunday, November 29, 2026 (Instrumental & Vocal) | 2:00pm – 6:30pm
Registration is NOW CLOSED
Registration Deadline: October 19, 2026
NEW CATEGORIES – Vocal Assessments & Mature Students Category
Location: Christ First United Church
1700 Mazo Crescent, Mississauga ON L5J 1Y8
Instrumentalists & Vocalists will be in the Sanctuary
Instrumental and Vocal Clinician: Maria Case
Maria Case is a dynamic and highly regarded educator and artist in Toronto’s musical community.
As Chief Examiner Emeritus for Theoretical Subjects at the Royal Conservatory of Music, she is a respected adjudicator, teacher, and lecturer on piano and theory pedagogy. She is also an accomplished pianist and vocal recitalist, choral conductor, and composer, and a frequent adjudicator at festivals and competitions.
Since 2005, Maria has served as Artistic Director of The Annex Singers, a Toronto-based choir that she leads with brio and imaginative programming. She is additionally Music Director of Glebe Road United Church in Toronto.
The majority of Maria’s compositions celebrate the voice and are inspired by texts from a wide range of texts and traditions. Many of her choral works have been written for and premiered by The Annex Singers. Her piano pieces and vocal works appear in the RCM books, and her song cycles are published by Plangere Editions.
Maria holds the ARCT Performance Diploma in Piano and Voice from the RCM, as well as a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the University of Toronto. Her other studies include English literature at the graduate level, conducting, and jazz at the Berklee College of Music.
SPRING:
Saturday, March 6, 2027 (Instrumental) | 9:00am – 9:00pm
Sunday, March 7, 2027 (Instrumental) | 1:30pm – 9:00pm
Sunday, March 7, 2027 (Vocal) | 2:30pm – 6:00pm
Registration is NOW OPEN
Registration Deadline: January 20, 2027
Location: Christ First United Church
1700 Mazo Crescent, Mississauga ON L5J 1Y8
Instrumentalists will be in the Sanctuary | Vocalists will be in the Merigold Room
Instrumental Clinician: Wendy Potter
Vocal Clinician: Mark Daboll
A tireless advocate for effortless singing at all stages of evolution, baritone MARK DABOLL enjoys a dynamic and diverse career as a voice teacher and performer. His 21st-centurysolution-based, structural approach to singing successfully serves the building of all voices, garnering him a reputation as a master vocal technician. He is sought after as a reliable voice renovator to professional opera and music theatre singers in all stages of their careers, equipped with immediate solutions to reaffirm individual, authentic vocal identity, and maximize vocal and artistic capability at the highest level of performance. A dedicated cohort of soloists, actor-singers, choral singers/conductors, and music educators count among his many students from across North America.
An Instructor of Applied Voice at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto for the past fourteen years, Mr. Daboll’s students have won or placed in national and international competitions and have been accepted into several professional development programs, including the International Lyric Academy Summer Program in Vicenza Italy, where he has also taught. He is the vocal coach for the Canadian Opera Company’s Summer Opera Intensive, which caters to ten emerging singer-artists selected from across Canada each year. One of his principal mentors is W. Stephen Smith, author of The Naked Voice, and teacher of many of the world’s elite singers. He most recently adjudicated at the 2026 OMFA Provincials Festival and has served as a vocal coach and master class teacher for the Ontario Youth Choir, the COC’s Summer Youth Intensive program, and for the Marigold Music Program – founded by his students to bridge the gap between marginalized youth and music education.
Although originally classically trained, Mark is uniquely qualified to teach a myriad of vocal styles including Music Theatre (legit to contemporary, including Broadway belting), and sub-genres of Pop, Rock, Jazz, and R&B, to name a few.
Mr. Daboll has performed in Canada, the US, UK, Italy, and Germany in opera, oratorio, concert, and recital. In October 2026, he presented recital with pianist Steven Philcox featuring Francis Poulenc’s Calligrammes song cycle, and songs of Hugo Wolf, Erich Korngold, and Samuel Barber as part of University of Toronto’s Faculty Concert Series – a program he previously performed at Toronto’s Heliconian Hall, and in Ottawa at the DOMS Recital Series with pianist Sarah Westbrook. Academic accolades include a B.Mus. in voice performance from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, New Jersey), an Opera Diploma from Wilfrid Laurier University, and an M.Mus. in vocal pedagogy and performance from the University of Toronto.
Students willing to participate in ORMTA Provincial and Young Artist Competitions can get more information here: